Sarcomas are a broad group of cancers that originate from connective tissues, such as the blood or lymph vessels, gastrointestinal tract, fat tissue, tendons, smooth muscles and tissue around the joints. These tumors are broadly divided into bone sarcomas and soft tissue sarcomas. With more than 70 subtypes of sarcoma, there are also a wide variety of treatment approaches and prognoses, and everything about the disease...

For some patients with non-small lung cancer, chemotherapy isn’t the most effective treatment option. But based on a tumor’s molecular profile or biomarker testing results, lung cancer treatment can be customized to target the tumor’s unique cellular characteristics.

We talked with Anne Tsao, M.D., to understand what non-small cell lung cancer patients should know about molecular profiling, including what tests they may need...